!!The Film:

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:The nod that Stevenson gives Wells at the end. Is he telling him to just get it over with? Or is he finally acknowledging that he is indeed a monster and it is best if he is stopped?]]
* AngstWhatAngst: By the end of the movie, Amy seems pretty cavalier about [[spoiler:her best friend being killed in a ProphecyTwist, and doesn't seem to mind going back to 1893 and leaving her life in 1979 behind]].
** Shock from meeting a time traveler and Jack the Ripper, and from seeing a newspaper from the future foretelling her death.
* EsotericHappyEnding: If we figure that the rest of the life that Amy Robbins lives out with Herbert George Wells mirrors that of what actually happened in the real world.
* GeniusBonus: Amy Robbins was, in fact, the name of Wells' wife. [[spoiler:The movie writers did this on purpose.]]
** The talk of a [[Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds ''World'' War]].
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Essentially, the plot revolves around a British time traveler and a woman named Amy, who harbors romantic feelings for him. [[Series/DoctorWho Too bad the time machine wasn't a phone booth...]]
** Does HG Wells know the [[Series/DoctorWho 11th Doctor]] [[ShoutOut raided his wardrobe?]]
** Both Creator/MalcolmMcDowell and Creator/DavidWarner would later go on to play Admiral Tolwyn in the [[VideoGame/WingCommander games]] and [[Film/WingCommander film]], respectively.
** Creator/MarySteenburgen plays a 20th century woman who falls in love with a time traveler from the 19th century. In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', she would play a 19th century woman who falls in love with a time traveler from the 20th century, the inverse of this movie. Funnier, considering the time-traveling doctor is white-haired, and her character's name is Clara. And the date traveled to in this movie, November 5, is the same date Marty [=McFly=] accidentally traveled to in the first BTTF film.[[note]]Though that was a coincidence; November 5 was the birthday of BTTF writer Bob Gale's father.[[/note]]
** At one point, Jack the Ripper calls H.G. Wells "Detective". On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Ra's Al Ghul, voiced by Creator/DavidWarner, frequently calls Franchise/{{Batman}} "Detective". And in the episode "Showdown", Creator/MalcolmMcDowell would reunite with Warner as [[spoiler:Ra's Al Ghul's illegitimate son]] Arkady Duvall.
* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/CoreyFeldman played the kid who saw H.G. Wells at the museum in SF.
* TearJerker: Amy goes into a severe state of shock when she goes into the future and reads [[spoiler:she's the Ripper's fifth victim]]. Wells is so worried about her safety that he confesses to the murders as long as the police will protect her, and when it's revealed he isn't the Ripper it's because [[spoiler:Stevenson already struck, killing Carol and kidnapping Amy]]. The policeman in charge of the investigation sincerely apologizes to Wells and lets him go.

!!The Series:

* TearJerker: John's a monster, no question about it, but you have to shed a few tears in "Picture Fades" when [[spoiler: he has to watch his son die as fated after making a concerted effort to save his life.]] Especially since said son is himself a wholeheartedly good man in a way that John never has been.
* UnconvincinglyUnpopularCharacter: Jane says she's broken up with her last boyfriend, has mostly had bad luck with men and when she'd tried online dating was dismissed as being "mediocre". She instantly attracts the romantic attention of the handsome, charming H. G. This is not surprising, since she's a gorgeous, charming woman, making the above very difficult to swallow.
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